JOYPURHAT, Nov. 21 -- The transport strike, enforced protesting the Road Transport Act-2018, seriously affected trading at the biggest wholesale vegetable markets in the country's northern region on Thursday.
Wholesalers could not purchase winter vegetables from the farmers on the second consecutive day of the strike.
On the other hand, farmers got frustrated as prices of newly-harvested vegetables witnessed abrupt fall in the local markets due to the strike called indefinitely by Bangladesh Truck Covered-van Goods Transportation Workers and Owners Association across the country, with effect from Wednesday.
Vegetable wholesalers and traders' sources said record quantity of vegetables go to the biggest commodity marketplace, Karwan Bazar,...